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The Complete EMI Sessions, 1928-1939

by: Paul Robeson

EMI Classics (50999 2)

Publication date: 2008

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

This item is available with audio samples only

Tracklist:

Disc 1:
1. Ol' Man River
2. Seem Lak' to Me
3. Down de Lovers' Lane
4. Scandalize My Name
5. Sinner, Please Doan' Let Dis Harves' Pass
6. Weepin' Mary
7. I Want to Be Ready
8. My Lord, What a Mornin'
9. De Li'l Piccaninny's Gone to Sleep
10. Git on Board, Li'l Children
11. Dere's No Hidin' Place
12. Plantation Songs (Part 1): So Early in the Morning / Carry Me Back to Old Virginia / Old Folks at Home / Goodnight Ladies
13. Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie / Poor Old Joe / Oh, Susanna / My Old Kentucky Home
14. Oh! Rock Me, Julie
15. Oh, Didn't It Rain
16. Mammy
17. Roll Away, Clouds
18. Sonny Boy
19. Little Pal
20. The Lonesome Road
21. Just Keepin' On
22. Mighty Lak' a Rose
23. Mammy Is Gone

Disc 2:
1. Hail de Crown
2. Exhortation
3. I Stood on the Ribber Jordan / Peter Go Ring Dem Bells
4. Go Down, Moses
5. High Water
6. Old Folks at Home
7. Poor Old Joe
8. My Old Kentucky Home
9. Ol' Man River
10. River Stay 'Way from My Door
11. Rockin' Chair
12. Medley of Spirituals: I'm Rolling and Sing-a-Ho / Hail de Crown / Joshua Fit fe Battle ob Jericho / I Got a Robe / Oh Lord I Done / De Gospel Train / Black Sheep / Heav'n Bells Are Ringin' / I'll Hear de Trumpet Sound / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Walk Together, Children
13. My Heart Is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
14. The Folks I Used to Know
15. Mary Had a Baby (Yes, Lord)
16. Lil' Gal
17. Bear de Burden / All God's Chillun Got Wings
18. That's Why Darkies Were Born
19. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
20. Seekin'

Disc 3:
1. Nearer, My God, to Thee
2. There Is a Green Hill
3. Ma Lindy Lou
4. Ma Curly-Headed Baby
5. Pilgrim's Song
6. Roll de Ole Chariot Along
7. Since You Went Away
8. Wid de Moon, Moon, Moon
9. Got the South in My Soul
10. Hush-a-Bye Lullaby
11. Round the Bend of the Road
12. Take Me Away from the River
13. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
14. On Ma Journey
15. Bye And Bye
16. Were You There?
17. Swing Along
18. Piccaninny Shoes
19. In a Narrow Street
20. Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
21. Lazy Bones
22. Blue Prelude
23. Paul Robeson Medley (Part 1): Roll de Ole Chariot / Mary Had a Baby / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Heav'n, Heav'n
24. Paul Robeson Medley (Part 2): Carry Me Back to Old Virginia / Mighty Lak' a Rose / Round the Bend of the River / River, Stay 'Way from My Door / Ol' Man River

Disc 4:
1. Fat Li'l Fella Wid His Mammy's Eyes
2. Shortnin' Bread
3. Snowball
4. Water Boy
5. Doan' You Cry, Ma Honey
6. Steal Away
7. Scarecrow
8. Wagon Wheels
9. So Shy
10. Piccaninny's Slumber Song
11. St. Louis Blues
12. Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy
13. Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
14. I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming
15. The Banjo Song
16. Paul Robeson Medley No. 2: Lazy Bones / Scarecrow / Fat Li'l Fella / Wagon Wheels / Deep River / Ma Curly-Headed Baby / Carry Me Back to Green Pastures / Old Folks at Home
17. Love Song
18. Congo Lullaby
19. Canoe Song
20. Killing Song
21. Shenandoah
22. Jes' Mah Song
23. De Ole Ark's a-Movering
24. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
25. Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho

Disc 5:
1. Honey (Dat's All)
2. Gloomy Sunday
3. Ol' Man River
4. I Still Suits Me
5. Sleepy River
6. Lonely Road
7. Song of Freedom
8. The Black Emperor
9. Mam'selle Marie
10. Dere's No Hidin' Place
11. Oh! No, John
12. Passing By
13. Hammer Song
14. Lil' David
15. My Way
16. Golden River
17. Ho! Ho! (Wagon Song)
18. Climbing Up (Mountain Song)
19. Lazin'
20. I Don't Know What's Wrong
21. Roll Up, Sailorman
22. You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things
23. Deep Desert
24. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
25. Minstrel Man
26. The Wanderer

Disc 6:
1. Dere's a Man Goin' round Takin' Names
2. No More
3. Work All de Summer
4. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
5. Silent Night, Holy Night
6. All through the Night
7. Solitude
8. Mood Indigo
9. Summertime (Lullaby)
10. It Take a Long Pull to Get There
11. It Ain't Necessarily So
12. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
13. Just a-Wearyin' for You
14. At Dawning
15. Song of the Volga Boatmen
16. An Eriskay Love-Lilt
17. Encantadora Maria
18. Goin' to Ride up in de Chariot
19. Every Time I Feel de Spirit
20. Lay Down Late
21. After the Battle
22. David of the White Rock
23. Trees
24. Songs My Mother Taught Me
25. Loch Lomond
26. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes

Disc 7:
1. Down de Lovers' Lane
2. Lullaby
3. Night
4. The Little Black Boy
5. Dear Old Southland
6. Jerusalem
7. The Blind Ploughman
8. The Cobbler's Song
9. Oh, Could I But Express in Song
10. Love at My Heart
11. Nothin'
12. The Rosary
13. A Perfect Day
14. Absent
15. Black Eyes
16. Oh, Promise Me
17. Plaisir d'Amour
18. Sylvia
19. She Is Far from the Land
20. Thora
21. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
22. Sea Fever
23. Ebenezer
24. Land of My Fathers
25. Deep River
26. Lord God of Abraham; Baal Chorus